William Gale (painter)
William Gale was a British painter of the pre-Raphaelite school.Life and career
Gale was born in London. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy 184493, but was never elected a member. He exhibited regularly at the British Institution and at the Royal Society of British Artists.
In 1851, he married and travelled to Italy for his honeymoon. Like many of his contemporary artists, he travelled the Middle East in 1862 and again 1867. He was a prolific artist; his output included sentimental, biblical and mythological subjects, and portraits and Orientalist pictures. There are examples of his work in the Tate Gallery, in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
His painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem features in the sleeve notes of the 2011 album 90 Bisodol by the band Half Man Half Biscuit.Selected works
- Young Celadon and his Amelia, 1845
- Chaucer's Dream, 1850
- Cydippe, 1851
- The Captured Runaway, 1856
- Nazareth,, 1856
- Eastern Woman, 1856
- Eyes to the Blind, 1861
- After the Spanish, c. 1861
- Blind Bartemeus, 1865
- Nearing Home, 1866
- The Holy Family, 1866
- Interior, Algiers, 1867
- The Favourite, date unknown
